Rewind 2012 photos: Newsmakers of the year

Phil Carpenter, The Gazette12.27.2012

AMY BLACKMORE: The creative director for the St-Ambroise Fringe Festival, she has just been made director of MainLine Theatre, succeeding Jeremy Hechtman. Her new title is now “director of MainLine Theatre and the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival.” MainLine produces the Fringe, which, under Blackmore, had its highest attendance this year.

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ROLLIE PEMBERTON: Rapper Rollie Pemberton, a.k.a. Cadence Weapon, this year released his third album, Hope in Dirt City. The album is a tribute to Edmonton, his hometown.Phil Carpenter
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SHEA EMRY: Montreal Alouettes middle-linebacker Shea Emry this year revealed publicly that he suffers from depression, after being fined three times for aggressive behaviour during the CFL season. Emry made his illness public to help bring awareness about the disease and also to the possible link between it and concussions among athletes. Emry suffered a concussion last year.Phil Carpenter
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SUGAR SAMMY: The first bilingual standup comedy show by humorist Samir Khullar, a.k.a. Sugar Sammy, sold out within minutes, and multiplied into on-going sold-out performances. By the time he’s finished he will have done 60 shows in all. Next year he plans to do a quadrilingual show “for the Indians in Montreal, in English, Hindi, Punjabi and a little bit of French.” Khullar is of Indian heritage.Phil Carpenter
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RAD HOURANI: The Montreal designer became the first Canadian to be invited by the Fédération française de la couture to show alongside Chanel, Dior and Valentino in Paris. Hourani is a self-taught designer who does severe, minimalist unisex clothing. He shows in Paris on Jan. 24.Phil Carpenter
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ÉMILIE HEYMANS: At the summer Olympic Games in London, the diver became the first Canadian athlete to win medals in four successive Games, collecting a bronze in the 3-metre synchronized springboard with partner Jennifer Abel. She says the London Games were her last. Now she’s focusing on her swimwear design business. She wears one of her designs here at her home in Brossard.Phil Carpenter
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PATRICE BERNIER: The Montreal Impact midfielder was picked this year as the team’s MVP and was nominated by the Canadian Soccer Association for the BMO Canadian Player of the Year award. He led the team with nine goals and was second with eight assists. He was also the 2012 Communitarian Award winner, presented to the player most involved with the community.Phil Carpenter
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MICHAEL APPLEBAUM: He became the city’s 42nd mayor, its first English mayor in a century and the first Jewish one, after his predecessor Gérald Tremblay quit amid allegations of corruption at city hall. The former Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce mayor was elected in a secret vote of Montreal’s city councillors on Nov. 16, 2012.Phil Carpenter
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LÉO BUREAU-BLOUIN: In September, he was elected the new MNA for Laval-des-Rapides for the Parti Québécois. Before the Quebec provincial election, he was president of the La Fédération étudiante collégiale du Québec (FECQ) and a central figure during the student protests against planned tuition hikes by the Charest government. On his first hundred days in office, he says the most difficult part of being a politician is to help people get over their cynicism of politicians.Phil Carpenter
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JACQUES DUCHESNEAU: Now the Coalition Avenir Québec justice critic, Duchesneau is the former head of the special anti-collusion unit established to investigate corruption. Fallout from his leaked report helped lead to the creation of the Charbonneau inquiry, which opened in the spring. In the provincial election in September, Duchesneau won the St-Jérôme riding for his party.Phil Carpenter
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